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there was a deeply depressing column by david brooks o friday that said the era of the grand bargain is over. what he meant by that was, there was a feeling over the past few years that both sides would come together and cut taxes and spending and get a g grand bargain pier that seems to be a lost opportunity. obama seems to be moving away with it -- from it. they will get into squabbles over the debt ceiling, buthey will not deal with the pblem in an essential way. >> i am reading robert carroll's latest book on lbj. it looked like jack kennedy was having the same problem with the congress. evererything was being sidetracked. >> that is true. i would say this as far as what senator obama said in 2006, consistency is the hobgoblin of small mes. but there was a different attitude. we have raised the debt ceiling 70-plus times. the congress has voted to do it. there was always a sense of we are not going to vote e to rai the other guys debt ceiling but there was always the understa that we would provide the votes in the final ananalysis. the president's party y did that. right now, wha
there was a deeply depressing column by david brooks o friday that said the era of the grand bargain is over. what he meant by that was, there was a feeling over the past few years that both sides would come together and cut taxes and spending and get a g grand bargain pier that seems to be a lost opportunity. obama seems to be moving away with it -- from it. they will get into squabbles over the debt ceiling, buthey will not deal with the pblem in an essential way. >> i am reading robert...
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. >> there is a deeply depressing column by david brooks in "the new york times" that says the era of the grand bargain, as he calls it, is over. there was a feeling over the past couple of years that both sides would cut taxes and raise entitlements and get a grand bargain. that seemed to be a lost opportunity. obama seems to be moving away from it, congress may have squabbled over the debt ceiling, but they are not going to deal with the essential problem in a meaningful way. >> i am reading a book on lbj. jack kennedy was having the same problem with congress. everything was being sidetracked, they were not going anywhere. >> that is true. i would say this, as far as what senator obama said in 2006, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. if there was a different attitude. we have raised the debt ceiling 70-plus times. there has always been that sense of we're not going to vote to raise the other guy's debt ceiling, but there was always the understanding that we would provide the votes in the final analysis. the president's party did that. right now, what you have is a situati
. >> there is a deeply depressing column by david brooks in "the new york times" that says the era of the grand bargain, as he calls it, is over. there was a feeling over the past couple of years that both sides would cut taxes and raise entitlements and get a grand bargain. that seemed to be a lost opportunity. obama seems to be moving away from it, congress may have squabbled over the debt ceiling, but they are not going to deal with the essential problem in a meaningful way....
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david brooks, mark shields, thanks. and mark and david will continue their discussion, with a side of sports, on the "doubleheader." that will be posted at the top of the rundown later tonight. >> suarez: again, the major developments of the day: there was word that one american hostage died in algeria. but confusion continued over the total number killed and the state of the standoff with islamic militants. and lance armstrong drew strong criticism after his admission to oprah winfrey that he engaged in long-term doping during his cycling career. online, we have a conversation with writer george saunders. hari sreenivasan tells us more. >> sreenivasan: jeff talks to the short story author about his new collection, "tenth of december," ten tales of biting social satire and deeply felt takes on contemporary american life. Ñ(gñ= Ñ we serve up some facts and resources on mercury poison at "lunch in the lab." plus, tell us what you think of our science coverage. take our poll, which you can find at the bottom of the stor
david brooks, mark shields, thanks. and mark and david will continue their discussion, with a side of sports, on the "doubleheader." that will be posted at the top of the rundown later tonight. >> suarez: again, the major developments of the day: there was word that one american hostage died in algeria. but confusion continued over the total number killed and the state of the standoff with islamic militants. and lance armstrong drew strong criticism after his admission to oprah...
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. >> there has been a shift here, a deeply depressing column by david brooks on friday that says the era of the grand bargain, as he calls it, is over. there was a feeling over the last couple of years that both sides might get together and raise taxes and cut entitlements and get a grand bargain to deal with the debt. that seems to be a lost opportunity. obama seems to be moving away from it, congress. they are going to get in these fractious squabbles over the debt ceiling but they are not going to deal with the essential problem in a meaningful way. >> i am reading robert carroll's book on lbj. jack kennedy, it looked like he was having the same problem with the congress. early on, lbj was having the same problem, that everything was being sidetracked. >> that is true. i would say this as far as what senator obama said in 2006, quoting mr. johnson. consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. there was a different attitude, and we have raise the debt ceiling 70-plus times, the congress has voted to do it, and there has always been that sense of we are not going to vote to raise th
. >> there has been a shift here, a deeply depressing column by david brooks on friday that says the era of the grand bargain, as he calls it, is over. there was a feeling over the last couple of years that both sides might get together and raise taxes and cut entitlements and get a grand bargain to deal with the debt. that seems to be a lost opportunity. obama seems to be moving away from it, congress. they are going to get in these fractious squabbles over the debt ceiling but they are...
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david brooks, mark shields, thanks. and mark and david will continue their discussion, with a side of sports, on the "doubleheader." that will be posted at the top of the rundown later tonight. >> suarez: again, the major developments of the day: there was word that one american hostage died in algeria. but confusion continued over the total number killed and the state of the standoff with islamic militants. and lance armstrong drew strong criticism after his admission to oprah winfrey that he engaged in long-term doping during his cycling career. online, we have a conversation with writer george saunders. hari sreenivasan tells us more. >> sreenivasan: jeff talks to the short story author about his new collection, "tenth of december," ten tales of biting social satire and deeply felt takes on contemporary american life. find that interview on "artÑii]çóÑ iokñrç;÷óçók;ç3]ió Ñ(gñ= Ñ! we serve up some facts and resources on mercury poison at "lunch in the lab." plus, tell us what you think of our science co
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. >> brown: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. d... >>his ogram was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: a federal appeals court rejected several recess appointments made by president obama last year, saying the moves were unconstitutional. the president appointed three people to the national labor relations board last january. the president argued he was justified in doingo because the senate w away for 20-day break. but republicans and business groups said the senate was still technically in session, if only for
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. >> brown: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: a federal appeals court rejected several recess appointments made by president obama last year saying the moves were unconstitutional. the president appointed three people to the national labor relations board last january. the president argued he was justified in doing so because the senate was away for a 20-day break. but republicans and business groups said the senate was still technically in session,
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now, will the david brooks and the bobby jindahls and jeb bushes of the world really step out and do that kind of we really got to save our party thing? it seems to me there's a good chance that they might. >> i'm also interested too in the kind of underlying policy debate here because i think even if you got rid of the tea party, the republican party would have some real crisis points around economic policy. they don't really have a policy for an era in which all votes are not rising, and brooks made that point very well in his piece. you know, they oppose dodd frank, but they didn't have any ideas with how to clean up the football system. they oppose obama care, but there's no ideas about how to fix health. it's not extremists. it's this underlying where do we go when we're in a totally different economic era than in the past? >> which is not to say that they're always going to lose or they have no influence circling back to the hagel hearings. senator cruz from texas, you know, elected this fall largely out of the tea party movement. the gun -- the federal gun debate that's going
now, will the david brooks and the bobby jindahls and jeb bushes of the world really step out and do that kind of we really got to save our party thing? it seems to me there's a good chance that they might. >> i'm also interested too in the kind of underlying policy debate here because i think even if you got rid of the tea party, the republican party would have some real crisis points around economic policy. they don't really have a policy for an era in which all votes are not rising,...
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do you think so. >> i think there is evidence to support the remarks david brooks is saying. bill burton a former deputy white house secretary and a close adviser to the president, very in close with the obama inner circle say as much in an interest view. he said we want chuck hagel there to allow us to bring through what he called huge cuts to the military. so you've got somebody close to the president who is saying that chuck hagel will make it easier for the obama administration to bring in this new era of military cuts. martha: the president's critics say that he has been really unconcerned and really has not spoken out much about the military cuts that would be part of the sequester. is that true? >> this is one of the things that i find most interesting about the past 18 months in washington. you've had uniformed military leaders and the secretary of defense and others screaming at the top of their lungs that the kinds of cuts that we would see in the sequester would be, quote, catastrophic to site one of them. you've had a president who seems almost indifferent rent to
do you think so. >> i think there is evidence to support the remarks david brooks is saying. bill burton a former deputy white house secretary and a close adviser to the president, very in close with the obama inner circle say as much in an interest view. he said we want chuck hagel there to allow us to bring through what he called huge cuts to the military. so you've got somebody close to the president who is saying that chuck hagel will make it easier for the obama administration to...
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and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the future u.s. military role in afghanistan was front and center today as president obama met with afghan leader hamid karzai. they reported progress in their talks, and said the pace of the security transition will be expedited. at their first face-to-face meeting since may, the leaders announced they're accelerating the handoff from u.s. and coalition forces to afghan troops. >> let me say it as pl
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. >> rose: here's what david brooks said. "it was the most unapologetically liberal speech we've heard barack obama give. it was really tracing american history and saying to keep faith to our ideals we have to change in a collective direction. we have to guarantee women equal income for the same work, he he mentioned gay rights and climate change and preserving medicare and social security. i thought it was laying down a liberal agenda." did you see it that way, mark? >> i think without a doubt, this was a progressive speech from a guy who has offered himself up sometimes as something more post-partisan. no doubt that almost every major progressive desire, vision of america was laid out in the speech. again, nothing surprising about what he believes. i thought the most surprising thing about the speech-- and it goes the point david brooks is making-- there's something surprising in it. there's nothing he said about these issues are important to him that was new or fresh or allowed us to see into his vision of how to move the
. >> rose: here's what david brooks said. "it was the most unapologetically liberal speech we've heard barack obama give. it was really tracing american history and saying to keep faith to our ideals we have to change in a collective direction. we have to guarantee women equal income for the same work, he he mentioned gay rights and climate change and preserving medicare and social security. i thought it was laying down a liberal agenda." did you see it that way, mark? >>...
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mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. bell come back, jae, jae. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: so afghanistan, the president met with hamid karzai at the white house. david what do you make of this announcement or sense now that they going to try to get u.s. troops out of a combat role quicker than expected. >> i guess i'm mostly impressed by how little resistance there is to us hitting the exit. some of it budgetary, you can't afford it i guess i have two concerns. one is what happens to school girls there. if the taliban takes over part of the country and second, and this goes to the whole mood of the country right now, suppose something happens and we have to do something express-- expensive around the world. where is the money going come for that. where is the public will are going come from. the mood of the country, it's not isolationist, but it's don't bother us now, we-- is very unlikely that we'll go 8 years without having a major foreign cries thas will cost us something. when that crisis comes, will we turn ar
mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. bell come back, jae, jae. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: so afghanistan, the president met with hamid karzai at the white house. david what do you make of this announcement or sense now that they going to try to get u.s. troops out of a combat role quicker than expected. >> i guess i'm mostly impressed by how little resistance there is to us hitting the exit. some of it budgetary, you can't afford it i guess...
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that's syndicated columnist mark shield and "new york times" columnist david brooks. >> don't worry, we recycle. >> all right, so the week began with the inauguration, we talked on monday it ends with the white house appointment of the new chief of staff, mark. what is the new team what is the language you heard this week tell you about the president that barack obama want os to be? >> i think like all re-elected presidents, he sees a mandate, an expanded vision of a mandate from the electoral victory. but he realizes time is short. and i think he does not show the same level of patience with the congress that he showed in his first term, that certain in patients, a realization that probably this is his best year in all likelihood, if history is any guide. i think he's been more sure footed. and i think a happier warrior as i said earlier. and i think the people, dennis mcdonough who has chosen to be his chief of staff is somebody whom he likes, whom he is comfortable with, it is very much in his comfort zone. >> uh-huh. >> and probably the only person ever to be white house chief of
that's syndicated columnist mark shield and "new york times" columnist david brooks. >> don't worry, we recycle. >> all right, so the week began with the inauguration, we talked on monday it ends with the white house appointment of the new chief of staff, mark. what is the new team what is the language you heard this week tell you about the president that barack obama want os to be? >> i think like all re-elected presidents, he sees a mandate, an expanded vision of a...
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david brooks talks about how when someone gets a patent, there required to say orestes heywood at the pet that influence to? almost always within 25 miles of the patent here. malcolm gladwell talks about the french impressionist old friends who hung out in the same buyer. they all trained the same absinthe. you know, movements are collected and made by people in proximity. people talk about if you're in a european capital come you can get five minutes done in a day. if your antenna, two meet infinity because those the time the traveler further and faster. there's all these reasons i cities make a smart competitive and people will be wanting to move to cities in the near future. more households now with dogs than children and it's going to continue that way for a long time. but the next 30 years, that's the dominant trend. i'll try and go faster with the other two. the best day to be a planar and america was july 9, 2004, when johnson, from ken lawrence frank came out with a book called urban sprawl and public health. but the book did this person technical epidemiological meet on the s
david brooks talks about how when someone gets a patent, there required to say orestes heywood at the pet that influence to? almost always within 25 miles of the patent here. malcolm gladwell talks about the french impressionist old friends who hung out in the same buyer. they all trained the same absinthe. you know, movements are collected and made by people in proximity. people talk about if you're in a european capital come you can get five minutes done in a day. if your antenna, two meet...
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david brooks, he sounded a lot more uplifting than four years ago. >> i thought it was beautiful and effective speech. he touched on the if you want to know strong argument. >> mark, i heard themes of collective action of what's left undone. >> i would say this. there is shorthand that i would apply to the speech it has to be us. not how am i doing, how are we doing, this is -- >> chuck humiditier is now introducing kelly clarkson, the first winner much the "american idol". >> i think she'll be singing the national anthem. beyonce is doing the national anthem. ♪ ♪ my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty ♪ of thee i sing ♪ land where my father died, land of the pilgrim's pride ♪ from every mountain top ♪ let freedom ring ♪ ♪ my father's god to thee ♪ author of liberty ♪ to thee we sing ♪ long may our land be bright ♪ with freedom's holy light ♪ protect us by thy might ♪ great god our king ♪ >> grammy award winner, 0 years old, kelly clarkson. "my country tis of thee" you don't usually get to hear all three versions. >> i had chance to talk to him, ve
david brooks, he sounded a lot more uplifting than four years ago. >> i thought it was beautiful and effective speech. he touched on the if you want to know strong argument. >> mark, i heard themes of collective action of what's left undone. >> i would say this. there is shorthand that i would apply to the speech it has to be us. not how am i doing, how are we doing, this is -- >> chuck humiditier is now introducing kelly clarkson, the first winner much the...
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. >> but abby with all the side becking going on, pun intended, david brooks on a more serious side says gop should just completely start over. in his column in "new york times" today he says people almost never change their unyielding narratives or unconscious frameworks. it's probably futile to try to change current b republicans. it's smarter to build a new wing of the republican party. >> i really like this idea. i'm glad you brought up this article. i was about to do that. because i think this could be exactly what the republican party needs. the harsh reality here is the fact republicans have not won the popular vote more than once in 2004 since 1988. i mean, these are the stats. this is what we're faced with as a party. so i think this idea of forming a second party, one that is a balanced party, one that can actually travel to the biggest cities around the country and talk about the need for government. yeah, as a republican you can still talk about why we do need government as a country. and you can appeal to people in different demographics that we're not reaching out to today.
. >> but abby with all the side becking going on, pun intended, david brooks on a more serious side says gop should just completely start over. in his column in "new york times" today he says people almost never change their unyielding narratives or unconscious frameworks. it's probably futile to try to change current b republicans. it's smarter to build a new wing of the republican party. >> i really like this idea. i'm glad you brought up this article. i was about to do...
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well, here is what david brooks wrote in "the new york times" today. quote, it's probably futile to try to change current republicans. it's smoorter to build a new wing of the republican party, one that can compete in the northeast and mid-atlantic states, in the upper midwest along the west coast as well. it could be filled with people who recoiled at president obama's second inaugural address because of its excessive faith in centralized power, but who don't share the absolute anti-government story of the current gop. what a coastal and midwestern gop sit easily with the southern and western one? no, but majority parties are usually coalitions of the income patible. this is really the only chance republicans have. the only way to build a second gop. my two guests are most excellent. michael steele, now an msnbc contributor, and bob costa, washington editor for the national review. the democratic party for years was an unbelievably absurd coalition, northern liberals, minorities, southern seg agree gathsists and they put together for people like adlai
well, here is what david brooks wrote in "the new york times" today. quote, it's probably futile to try to change current republicans. it's smoorter to build a new wing of the republican party, one that can compete in the northeast and mid-atlantic states, in the upper midwest along the west coast as well. it could be filled with people who recoiled at president obama's second inaugural address because of its excessive faith in centralized power, but who don't share the absolute...
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now, tom, what is wrong with you because everyone from david brooks to bill clinton is in love with this film, but you say in your latest column, "lincoln" is a move ni that makes viewers feel noble at first but on reflection the sentiment feels hollow. it's not only a hackneyed film but a mendacious one as well. what is wrong with you? >> i don't know, martin. it's something -- it's congenital or something. i'm always like this. i'm always going the wrong direction, but it doesn't surprise me that bill clinton is going to celebrate something like this. i mean, come on. this is a man that invented triangulation. and you think of all the great triumphs of triangulation, of bipartisanship in the clinton years. deregulation of the financial industry, alan greenspan at the head of the federal reserve, triumphs, triumphs, martin, i tell you. >> but, tom, you can't possibly be dissatisfied with the outcome in real life because, of course, we know what lincoln achieved. >> right, of course, right. because at the end of the day they abolished slavery. that's right. the thing is, i mean, the way
now, tom, what is wrong with you because everyone from david brooks to bill clinton is in love with this film, but you say in your latest column, "lincoln" is a move ni that makes viewers feel noble at first but on reflection the sentiment feels hollow. it's not only a hackneyed film but a mendacious one as well. what is wrong with you? >> i don't know, martin. it's something -- it's congenital or something. i'm always like this. i'm always going the wrong direction, but it...
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. >> reporter: columnist david brooks criticized congress for setting up fights by avoiding hard decisions. far from laying the groundwork for future cooperation, it sentences the country to another few years of budget warfare. the president opened the door to reducing entitlements to reduce the deficit. >> i agree with democrats and republicans that the aging population and rising cost of health care makes medicare the biggest contributor to our deficit. >> reporter: after midnight as lawmakers poured out of the capital with just one day left before a new congress takes over, the president headed overnight to hawaii to rejoin his family on vacation. so, washington takes a breath now, but there are those other fights coming. in fact, it will be just a matter of weeks before they fight over raising the country's ceiling to borrow. we will be back to some othe same wrangling very soon. matt? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you very much. chuck todd is nbc's political correspondent and our political direct director, of course. they got this done at the 11th hour -- after the 13g9 hour if you want t
. >> reporter: columnist david brooks criticized congress for setting up fights by avoiding hard decisions. far from laying the groundwork for future cooperation, it sentences the country to another few years of budget warfare. the president opened the door to reducing entitlements to reduce the deficit. >> i agree with democrats and republicans that the aging population and rising cost of health care makes medicare the biggest contributor to our deficit. >> reporter: after...